Damage estimates have reached nearly $10 million with 200 state buildings and 675 vehicles with moderate to major damage. State lawmakers are worried about paying for it all.

"We are not going to spend that much money on repairing those cars," said Rep. Jim Evans, D-Jackson. "We are either going to do a 20 percent, 50 percent or 70 percent."

"But it's going to throw us back a couple of years," said Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones, D-Canton.

The State Police are still assessing which damaged cars can go back on the road and which were pounded too severely to put back into service.

The Department of Mental Health appears to be the state agency with the largest building damage, but fortunately it is covered by insurance. However, the deductible is $250,000. State vehicles were not insured, so Mississippi will have to pay to repair or replace the damaged ones.

"We don't have any idea what the cost estimates will be on that yet," said Kevin Upchurch, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration. "Ultimately taxpayers do (pay for the damages), like they do for everything, but each individual agency pays for that themselves."

Upchurch said the state will have to absorb the cost of replacing or repairing its damaged vehicles. Many of the cars that suffered minor damage and are drivable will stay on the road.

"So I predict three or four years from now, we might see some state vehicles driving around, and we'll know they are state vehicles because they will remind us of the hail storm of 2013," Upchurch said.

State lawmakers are in the final weeks of the budgeting process. There has been a lot of lobbying behind closed doors to convince lawmakers to find more money to pay for the damage from the hail storm.

The state hospital in Pearl reported 80 percent of its buildings suffered room damage, and 100 cars were damaged, too.